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Interviews

August 2009

August 28, 2009

Warehousing in the Clouds

Arthur Cole spoke with Richard Leavitt, executive vice president of worldwide marketing for Rally Software .   Cole: One of the new additions to the Agile lifecycle management (ALM) system is ... More >

August 27, 2009

Tying the Cellular/Wi-Fi Knot

The connection between Wi-Fi and cellular is complicated. The two approaches to voice and data communications partly compete and partly complement each other. Meraki, which hosts WLAN controllers in ... More >

Bootstrapping a Better Alternative than VC for Most Startups

Ann All spoke with Sramana Mitra, a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. She has founded three companies, is a Forbes columnist and blogs at Sramana Mitra on Strategy .... More >

August 26, 2009

Surviving Sarbox 404(b) for Small Business

Lora Bentley spoke with Paresh Raghani, a managing director at Protiviti , regarding how he and his colleagues are advising small businesses to approach the auditor attestation requirements of Sarba... More >

August 25, 2009

Where Data Warehouses End and Master Data Management Begins

  Last week, Evan Levy, a partner at Baseline Consulting and an instructor at The Data Warehousing Institute , told our Loraine Lawson why master data management transcends the data warehous... More >

August 24, 2009

Virtual Management: Streamlining the Application Environment

Arthur Cole spoke with John Newsom, vice president/ general manager of application management, Quest Software .   Cole : Now that virtual infrastructure has taken hold in most data centers, man... More >

August 21, 2009

Data Helps Wireless Carriers Work Through the Recession

Carl Weinschenk spoke with independent analyst Chetan Sharma , who released research titled "U.S. Wireless Data Market Update" earlier this month. Weinschenk: Please describe your recent research. ... More >

August 20, 2009

Proxy Bids Alternative to Benchmarking Outsourcing Provider

Ann All spoke with Scott Feuless, a senior consultant with independent management consulting firm Compass , about using a proxy bid as an alternative to a formal benchmarking clause in an outsourcin... More >

August 19, 2009

Using 'Vanish' Could Create E-Discovery Difficulties

Lora Bentley spoke with Greenberg Traurig shareholder Adam Landa , who co-chairs the law firm's national e-retention and litigation preparedness practice group. He and colleague Phil Cohen wrote an ... More >

August 18, 2009

Cool from the Ground Up

Arthur Cole spoke with Bob Miller, vice president of Liebert marquee accounts, Emerson Network Power .   Cole : Much has been said of data center efficiency lately, but this is the first time I... More >

August 17, 2009

Why MDM Transcends the Data Warehouse – and Its Staff

  Loraine Lawson spoke with Evan Levy, a partner at Baseline Consulting and an instructor at The Data Warehousing Institute , about why data warehouses aren't the place to start multipurpose ... More >

August 14, 2009

Definitions Still Elusive in the Exploding Mobile Device Sector

Carl Weinschenk spoke to Creative Strategies' President Tim Bajarin.   Weinschenk: What dynamic is taking place in the sector between smartphones and laptops? Bajarin: The big trend is that ... More >

August 13, 2009

Social CRM: It's Not About You, It's About Your Customers

Ann All spoke with Brent Leary, a CRM industry analyst, advisor, author, speaker and blogger . He is co-founder and Partner of CRM Essentials LLC , an advisory company with a client list including ... More >

August 12, 2009

Vanish Doesn't Play Nice with Legal or Corporate Retention Requirements

Lora Bentley spoke with Greenberg Traurig shareholder Adam Landa , who co-chairs the law firm's national e-retention and litigation preparedness practice group about Vanish , an encryption technolo... More >

August 11, 2009

From LAN to WAN and Back Again

Arthur Cole spoke with J.P. Gagne, founder, CEO, NewServers Inc.   Cole : The need for high-speed networking in cloud environments is obvious, but most WAN acceleration systems are designed f... More >

August 7, 2009

Telepresence Moves Slowly Toward Inter-Carrier Agreements

Carl Weinschenk spoke with Mitchell Hershkowitz, national solutions manager, Converged Communications, at Dimension Data . At Cisco Live 09 earlier this summer, Cisco, AT&T, BT and Tata Communic... More >

August 6, 2009

Make Sure Social Media Metrics Are Meaningful

Ann All spoke with Marc Engelsman, vice president of Digital Brand Expressions , a search marketing consultancy and services company.   All: Everyone seems to agree it’s important to define me... More >

August 5, 2009

Does Facebook Connect Result in Shared Ownership of Data?

Lora Bentley spoke with Tony Roth, President and CEO, Celect.org . Celect specializes in providing online communities for organizations such as fraternities and sororities, churches and university a... More >

August 4, 2009

The Cloud as a Distributed Network for Your SOA

Loraine Lawson spoke with Atul Saini, CEO/Chairman/CTO of Fiorano Software , about how cloud computing can support your company's SOA by making it more scalable and how support software for SOA will... More >

August 3, 2009

Hosting the Private Cloud

Arthur Cole spoke with John Engates, CTO, Rackspace .   Cole : You claim to offer a private cloud based in your own data center. How does that work? Engates : The private cloud is the message y... More >

Searching for Savings? Examine Your Telecom Network

Lora Bentley spoke with Julie Dillenbeck, marketing VP at Global Capacity , a telecommunications information and logistics company that helps businesses increase efficiency with supply chain issues ... More >

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